Practice Expertise

  • General Business Litigation
  • General Litigation
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Areas of Practice

  • General Business Litigation
  • General Litigation
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WSG Practice Industries

WSG Leadership

  • WSG Coronavirus Task Force Group - Member

Profile

Xavier Pernot is a partner in charge of the litigation-arbitration-mediation practice.

With his experience in assisting our clients in strategic and high-stakes litigation, Xavier leads a multidisciplinary team whose main areas of practice are corporate litigation and equity transactions, commercial and operational litigation, and complex industrial and financial litigation. The team also acts in insolvency proceedings, enforcement proceedings and criminal business law.

Bar Admissions
Paris (2001)

Education
Global Executive MBA - INSEAD, 2011
Postgraduate Degree (DEA) in Business Law - University of Pantheon-Sorbonne (Paris 1), 2001

Areas of Practice

  • General Business Litigation
  • General Litigation

Professional Career

Significant Accomplishments
Assistance to a portfolio management company in a dispute over the sale of a minority stake.
Assistance to a French company specialising in the development of KYC software in a dispute relating to the acquisition of part of its shares by a Qatar-based company.
Assistance to a French press group in a short term procedure before the Paris Court of First Instance in a dispute relating to the payment of the acquisition price of a new media.
Assistance to a Turkish company specialised in airport construction in a joint venture agreement relating to the construction of new premises for ADP (Aéroports de Paris), located at Charles de Gaulle International Airport.
Assistance to a Hong Kong company in a dispute relating to its liability for a fire in a food factory.
Assistance to an investment consultancy company in a dispute relating to the non-payment of an assistance and financing assignment for wind farm projects in Poland.
Assistance to an American Fortune 500 company, specialised in electronics, in several pre-litigation and litigation cases (product liability, collection and default, financing, commercial law, etc.).
Assistance to a music production company against a logistics subcontractor, in the context of debt collection proceedings related to the non-performance of a service contract.

Professional Associations
  • ANAJ-IHEDN (Institute for Higher National Defence)


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